Been inside any of Rock Ventures' downtown Detroit offices lately?

This obviously does not apply to employees of Rock Ventures companies or other firms that share real estate with them downtown, but for everyone else: Have you been inside any of Rock Ventures' offices recently, like the Compuware building, for example?

Mlive Detroit took a brief tour through some of Rock Ventures’ digs today, and they certainly are a departure from the monotonous, soul-crushing, grey-beige cubicles that have traditionally dominated corporate America. Things like Nintendo 64 game consoles and ping pong tables are found in the colorful and open work space.

Speaking of space, Rock Ventures apparently needs more of it, though the quarters at some floors of the Compuware, Chase and Chrysler House buildings were not visibly cramped. The group, founded and chaired by Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, announced Monday that it has bought the 26-floor One Woodward building in downtown Detroit.

The purchase adds 333,000 square feet of Class A commercial space to the group's real estate holdings, and gives Rock Ventures a total of 2.5 million square feet of commercial space in 10 buildings downtown, all of which was acquired since 2011, in addition to two parking garages with 3,500 parking spaces.

With the One Woodward building, the company says it is accommodating growing demand for space in an emerging technology corridor downtown.

Last month the company broke ground on a 535,000-square-foot, Z-shaped parking and retail development that will zigzag from the corner of Broadway and East Grand River to the corner of Gratiot and Library. The development, expected to be complete in December 2013, will include 1,300 parking spaces and 33,000 square feet of retail space.

We were able to snap a pseudo-aerial photo of that development, as well as other spaces inside the Compuware, Chase and Chrysler House buildings Wednesday afternoon. Check out the gallery (above right, also includes older photos from a previous tour of the M@dison Building).